THE GREAT ESCAPERS AXED BY ITV AFTER ONE SERIES

EXCLUSIVE

The Great Escapers, which was produced by South Shore and co-funded by Jet2holidays, will not be returning for a second series on ITV.

The four-part series, which aired last Autumn, took some of the nation’s best known ITV faces and send them off on their very first holiday together. The Great Escapers showed the celebrities as we’ve never seen them before.

In each episode, three stars will compete to give their colleagues the best holiday experience they can. But will one star’s dream day out prove to be another’s worst nightmare?

An ITV spokeswoman told TV Zone: "As a branded piece of entertainment content, The Great Escapers was commissioned as a one-off series."

Jet2holidays had a friendly overseas customer helper on hand throughout the experience to help guide each celebrity with their activity choices. Will the celeb choose what they personally like or try to guess what their travel companions would prefer? At the end of the trip, the three celebrities will vote for who put together the most memorable day and one of them will be crowned The Greatest Escaper.

Famous faces who took part were I'm A Celebrity favourites Oti Mabuse, Dean McCullough and Barry McGuigan; The Chase's Mark Labbett, Shaun Wallace and Jenny Ryan; Loose Women's Denise Welch, Katie Piper and Sunetra Sarker and Coronation Steet's Andy Whyment, Maureen Lipman and Tanisha Gorey.

The Great Escapers is available now on ITVX.